Endowment: Trustee Disputes and Authority in Endowment Management
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Endowment: Trustee Disputes and Authority in Endowment Management
English:
Question #1987:
Should there be a group of trustees entrusted with the running of the endowment, is there a shar‘ī justification for some of them to run the endowment without consulting the remaining trustees? Should there be a dispute between them, are they justified in sticking to their own positions without having recourse to the authorised religious authority?
Answer #1987:
Should the endower have appointed them as trustees without specifying anything else and there is no evidence that some of them or the majority of them could act independently of others, none, and not even the majority, can have independence in running the entire endowment or parts thereof. Indeed, it is obligatory on them to reach unanimity through consultation. Should there arise a dispute or a difference of opinion among them, it is obligatory on them to take recourse, in the matter, to the authorised religious authority who should make it binding on them to agree.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Endowments